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        "alt": "Passage from “Accelerando” by Charles Stross\n\nACCELERANDO\n55\n\"I don't need a manager; my whole thing is about being fast and out\nof control!\" \"You think you do not need a manager, but your companies do,\" she observes. \"You have lawsuits, how many? You cannot the time to over- see them spare. The Soviets, they abolish capitalists, but even they need\nmanagers. Please, let me manage for you!\" Annette is so intense about the idea that she becomes visibly aroused. He leans toward her, cups a hand around one taut nipple. \"The\ncompany matrix isn't sold yet,\" he admits.\n\"It is not?\" She looks delighted. \"Excellent! To who can this be\nsold, to Moscow? To SLORC? To-\" \"I was thinking of the Italian Communist Party,\" he says. \"It's a pi- lot project. I was working on selling it—I need the money for my di-\nvorce, and to close the deal on the luggage-but it's not that simple. Someone has to run the damn thing—someone with a keen understand- ing of how to interface a central planning system with a capitalist econ- omy. A system administrator with the experience of working for a multinational corporation would be perfect, ideally with an interest in finding new ways and means of interfacing the centrally planned enter- prise to the outside world.\" He looks at her with suddenly dawning sur-\nmise. \"Um, are you interested?\"",
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  "text": "\u003e I don't need a manager; my whole thing is about being fast and out of control!\n\n\u003e Someone has to run the damn thing—someone with a keen understanding of how to interface a central planning system with a capitalist economy.\n\nmy vibe in a nutshell."
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